Months ahead of Punjab assembly polls, special drive to update voters’ list

Chandigarh: With assembly elections scheduled to be held next year, the Election Commission has started the

revision

exercise of the voter

list

in Punjab.

As per guidelines of the Election Commission of India (ECI), a special campaign for registration, deletion and correction of particulars in voter list with a qualifying date of January 1, 2022, has started in the state. Known as special summary revision, this gives an opportunity to citizens to register themselves as

voters

and also verify their electoral details through offline or online medium.

Chief electoral officer (CEO) Punjab S Karuna Raju said the prevalent situation due to Covid-19 had posed some challenges in conducting elections, however, the election machinery was geared up to tide over this unprecedented situation.

In view of upcoming assembly election in the first quarter of next year, this exercise would be extensively carried out across the state from district-level, constituency-level to right up to the booth-level. A door-to-door exercise will be undertaken by the booth-level officers (BLOs) till October 31, 2021.

He said with an objective to improve the health of electoral rolls and ensure enrolment of all eligible citizens, special summary revision was conducted in the later part of each year in all the states. People who have not been able to register themselves as voters and those who find errors in the electoral rolls or have migrated to some other constituency can utilise the special summary revision of the roll with the qualifying date as January 1, 2022, who have completed or will be completing age of 18 on or before January 1, 2022.

The CEO has directed all the deputy commissioners-cum-district election officers to undertake this revision activity and to supervise their teams periodically.